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Spirit Weekend 2004
12th Man Student Foundation
Janet McConnaughey
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so common among people
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any patients live longer,
:allhier lives, a study found.
Experts called the study a
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cell disease, an inherited
disorder that affects 70,000
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Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Medical Center.
One-third of sickle cell
patients have the lung condition,
which makes them 10 times more
likely to die within 18 months,
doctors at the National Institutes
of Health and Howard University
reported in Thursday’s New
England Journal of Medicine.
Doctors must now find the
best ways to treat sickle cell
patients who also have pul
monary hypertension, or high
blood - pressure in the lungs. It is
a condition in which narrowed,
thickened blood vessels in the
lungs keep the body from get
ting enough oxygen.
Researchers do not know if
pulmonary hypertension caused
the increase in deaths among the
195 patients they studied, or was
a sign of severe sickle cell dis
ease. But it was present in 63
patients, or 32 percent.
All 195 were in stable condi
tion at the start. Within 18
months, nearly 20 percent of
those with both conditions were
dead, compared to fewer than 2
percent of those without pul
monary hypertension.
The numbers indicate that
patients with sickle cell dis
ease should be tested for pul
monary hypertension, said
Dr. Mark T. Gladwin lead
researcher for the study.
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